English - Sculptor | 1957 -
I started making houses for ants because I thought they needed somewhere to live. Then I made them shoes and hats. It was a fantasy world I escaped to where my dyslexia didn't hold me back and my teachers couldn't criticize me. That's how my career as a micro-sculptor began.
Willard Wigan
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As a kid, I lived in a fantasy world. I used to believe ants could talk. Not once did they say thank you.
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Flying helicopters is what I do for fun.
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I heard someone say that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to get into heaven. I decided to sculpt camels in a needle.
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At home, when the heating pipes made noises, I imagined a tiny person was in there skipping with a rope. The fantasy world of tiny things became my escape.
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We didn't have money for toys, so I made my own.
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My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure.
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People often swear the first time they see my work. I like that.
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I'm like a mad professor, but without the spiky hair.
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When you work at a microscopic level, you have to control every part of your body movement - your fingertips, your joints, the pulse in your fingers.
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I'm just honoring my mother's words. She always told me, 'The smaller your work, the bigger your name will become.'
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When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of other skills.
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